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Ned Lamont: “I'm paying down 2% of the unfunded pension liability this…”

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Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont Discusses State's Future and Personal Insights at Connecticut Mirror Event

Published | Video Starts at 23:07

Are you willing to look at these guardrails and maybe make some reforms? There's no money sitting on the sidelines. I just don't know what that means. You can say I'm paying down 2% of the unfunded pension liability this year. This is a state that put a dime into pensions for the previous 40, 50 years and left us with this gaping hole that was really sapping the energy and optimism from the state. (23:07–23:12)

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Asserts that Connecticut is reducing its unfunded pension liability by 2% this year.

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